Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor who wrote the historical book, Night. He wrote this book because he needs to give some meaning to his survival. He wants to leave behind a legacy of words and memories to prevent history from repeating itself. The Nazis left the Jewish world in ruins. He also needs to show other people the horror of genocide and what it does to a society. Elie Wiesel wrote a book for the youth, so his past does not become their future.
He was the head of Nazi propaganda. He set up the Reich Chamber of Commerce in 1933. He worked with SS and Gestapo and Albert Speer. He also organized the first burning book episode.
It means “Night of the Broken Glass”. It happened in November 9th – 10th 1938. SS General Reinhard, SS Major General Heinrich Muller, SS Colonel Eberhard Scongarth, SS Major Rudolf Lange, and SS Major General Otto Hofmann. They discussed the “Final Solution.”
The “Final Solution” was the code name for the systematic, deliberate, physical annihilation of the European Jews.
The Victims
Besides the Jewish people, list seven other groups were also targets/victims of the Holocaust?
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
Gypsies, people with disabilities, Poles, Afro Germans, homosexuals, Jehovah’s witnesses, and Soviet prisoners of war. They eliminated them by shooting them or putting them in gas chambers.
The Ghettos
Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.
There were closed ghettos, open ghettos, and destruction ghettos. Their purpose was to isolate the Jews from the non-Jews. They were in Poland and the Soviet Union. Closed ghettos were closed off by walls or barbed wire. They were extremely full and unsanitary. They had no house heating and the people were starved. Open ghettos had no walls or fences and there were restrictions for entering or leaving. Destruction ghettos were tightly sealed off for 6 weeks before the Nazis came to shoot the Jews or concentrate them.
Labor camps worked Jews until they died of exhaustion and extermination camps were for mass murder. In concentration camps they were overworked and they starved and in some places Nazi doctors performed medical experiments on prisoners. Jews were either shot or they were put in gas chambers.
The Soviets liberated the camps. Hitler committed suicide by shooting himself. 24 defendants were charged. They represented a cross- section of the German diplomatic, economic, political, and military leadership. The range of Nazi crimes.
Assignment 3: Images of Night Moishe the Beadle Moishe the Beadle Spiritual and Insignificant Singing, Praying, and Worshiping As awkward as a clown and his dreamy eyes like clouds A man of wisdom Warning From one house to the next
Table of Contents
Nikki P. Night Assignments
Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
Elie Wiesel’s Reasons
Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor who wrote the historical book, Night. He wrote this book because he needs to give some meaning to his survival. He wants to leave behind a legacy of words and memories to prevent history from repeating itself. The Nazis left the Jewish world in ruins. He also needs to show other people the horror of genocide and what it does to a society. Elie Wiesel wrote a book for the youth, so his past does not become their future.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Night Web Search
Background Information for the Holocaust
Use the following websites for a quick overview of the following terms and people.
HYPERLINK "http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/" http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/
Who is Joseph Goebbels?
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
HYPERLINK "http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm" http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm
Wannsee Conference
What is Kristallnacht and what does the word mean? When did it happen?
HYPERLINK "http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht/" http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht/
Who attended and what was decided at the Wannsee Conference?
What was the Final Solution?
HYPERLINK "http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005477" http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005477
The “Final Solution” was the code name for the systematic, deliberate, physical annihilation of the European Jews.
Besides the Jewish people, list seven other groups were also targets/victims of the Holocaust?
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
HYPERLINK "http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007457" http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007457
Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.
HYPERLINK "http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059" http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059
What was life like in the ghettos?
HYPERLINK "http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007445" http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007445
HYPERLINK "http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144" http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144
What were the conditions?
What different types of extermination were performed?
HYPERLINK "http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005145" http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005145
Who liberated the camps?
HYPERLINK "http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005131" http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005131
What did Hitler do near the end of the war?
How many defendants were charged during the Nuremberg Trials? What did they represent?
HYPERLINK "http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007143" http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007143
What did the International Military Tribunal decide was not a legitimate defense?
HYPERLINK "http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007142" http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007142
Assignment 3: Images of Night
Moishe the Beadle
Moishe the Beadle
Spiritual and Insignificant
Singing, Praying, and Worshiping
As awkward as a clown and his dreamy eyes like clouds
A man of wisdom
Warning
From one house to the next